Roses for the safe return of two family pets ­­— one, a dog rescued from the fast-moving Schuylkill River, and the other, a police dog returned to the home he shared with his “partner” Officer Brad Fox, who was killed in the line of duty. Officer Nick, the K-9 partner of fallen Plymouth Township police officer Fox, was formally retired and given to Fox’s widow and daughter, Lynsay and Kadence. “I’m just glad to have him home officially. It’s a small piece of Brad that we now have home with us personally,” said Lynsay Fox, of New Hanover. “I know he meant a lot to Kadence and to see the bond that they have is irreplaceable.” The retirement ceremony and return of Nick to the Fox family home occurred at the Plymouth Township Board of Supervisors meeting this week.

In another incident earlier the same day, Royersford Police Officer Mark Smythe jumped in the Schuylkill River to rescue a dog that was in distress in the water. “I saw his head coming up and the current is tough there,” Smythe said, noting the dog, “Woody,” was trapped beneath a log in the water. Smythe said he was able to free Woody from where he was trapped by the log, and helped get him ashore. Woody was taken to Royersford Veterinary Hospital for treatment and then to the SPCA in Perkiomenville before his owners claimed him. Smythe said the owners explained Woody got loose from a fenced-in yard. He said the owners were “grateful” Woody was safe.

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Roses to AboutOne founder and CEO Joanne Lang is introducing Communication Station, a cloud-based system that gives children in foster care and their caregivers a secure place to easily manage the child’s health and education records, mementos and other life documents. Lang is raising capital for the application with a catchy Sesame Street-style name, IndieGoGo, to do it. Lang said as children are moved from placement to placement in the foster care system, records about their health, education, mementos and milestones are poorly maintained or are non-existent. Many are lost. That is something Lang can fix. An online organizer company, AboutOne provides one place to quickly store and manage mementos and household paperwork. It builds on calendar and contact tools families are already using, organizing them in a way that other apps don’t. It makes the information readily available for informed decisions and fast responses in emergencies.